131049 - Can't delete folder on server if IMAP server doesn't support mixed (message/container) folders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115988

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[jquinn]

(vaguely similar to 70522 but different)

some unix IMAP servers let folders contain only messages OR other folders. If
you have such a server, you cannot (using mozilla) delete a folder on the
server. EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE ACCOUNT SETTINGS TO IMMEDIATELY DELETE MESSAGES
RATHER THAN MOVING HEM TO THE TRASH, mozilla attempts to move the deleted folder
to the trash. Since the trash is a messages-only type folder, it fails, and
you're stuck.

Comment 1

[laurel]

changing from movemail to mail backend

Comment 2

[Ryan Grove]

I've reproduced this using nightly build 2002031608 on Windows XP and the
Rockliffe MailSite 4.5.6 IMAP server. If someone wants an IMAP account to test
with, I'd be more than happy to oblige.

Comment 3

[Bryce Mozilla Nesbitt]

With this server:
    * OK idiom IMAP4rev1 v11.241 server ready
I get this message attempting to delete a folder:
    RENAMED failed: Can't create mailbox node ...../Trash/: File exists.

I must manage folders by loging into the remote unix shell.

Comment 4

[Gabriel Radic]

I have this problem as well. 
Please fix it.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 115988?

Comment 6

[Jason M. Abels]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115988 ***